Artist's rendering, Monarch, in Chaffee County, Colorado, shows dwellings, commercial buildings, a tramway, railroad cars (engine, freight and ore cars) on tracks, and a milling structure. Monarch was founded in 1878 lasted until the silver panic...
View of the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company's Monarch Lime Quarry in Monarch (Chaffee County), Colorado. Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad locomotive #496 (2-8-2) switches tracks at the limestone quarry. Shows gondola or hopper cars filled with...
Colorado Fuel and Iron Company--1940-1950.; Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Company--1940-1950.; Monarch (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Monarch Lime Quarry (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Sangre de Cristo Mountains (Colo. and N.M.)--1940-1950.; Limestone...
Denver and Rio Grande Western locomotive 489 (2-8-2), with a push snowplow, vents smoke at Monarch (Chaffee County), Colorado; a man stands in snow by a semaphore switch.
Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Company--1950-1960.; Monarch (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Railroad locomotives--Colorado--Monarch--1950-1960.; Railroad signals--Colorado--Monarch--1950-1960.; Snow--Colorado--Monarch--1950-1960.;...
Monarch, founded in Chaffee County, Colorado in 1878, consists of log or frame dwellings and commercial buildings lining dirt street. Surrounding hills are covered in felled timber; a tramway climbs the slopes to a mine higher up. Freight and ore...
Denver and Rio Grande Railway Company--1880-1890.; Madonna Mine and Ore Tramway.; Monarch (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Mining--Colorado--Monarch--1880-1890.; Mountain railroads--Colorado--Monarch--1880-1890.; Railroads--Colorado--Monarch--1880-1890.
View of the Monarch Branch of the Denver and Rio Grande Railway Company near Garfield (Chaffee County), Colorado by the approach to Monarch Pass. A train with a passenger car is on the tracks. A wood frame barn and buildings are nearby. Mountains...
Chaffee County (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Railroads--Colorado--Chaffee County--1880-1890.
Panoramic view of the valley near Monarch Pass on the Monarch Branch of the Denver and Rio Grande Railway Company near Garfield (Chaffee County), Colorado. A train with a passenger car is on the tracks. Shows a wood frame barn and buildings in the...
Denver and Rio Grande Railway Company--1880-1890.; Chaffee County (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Railroad track--Colorado--Chaffee County--1880-1890.; Railroads--Colorado--Chaffee County--1880-1890.; Valleys--Colorado--Chaffee County--1880-1890.
Members of the Roundup Riders of the Rockies eat dinner at tables in the Monarch Lake Lodge in Monarch (Grand County), Colorado. The men wear western attire; some wear vests with the "3R" brand. The dining room has a low ceiling, a cross beam,...
Roundup Riders of the Rockies (Colo.)--People--1950-1960.; Monarch (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Eating & drinking--Colorado--Grand County--1950-1960.; Hotels--Colorado--Grand County--1950-1960.; Interiors--Colorado--Grand County--1950-1960.;...
Smoke rises from Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad locomotive #499 (2-8-2) stopped on tracks near a railroad bridge at Monarch (Chaffee County), Colorado. Members of the Rocky Mountain Railroad Club stand near special cars #163, #306, #284,...
Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Company--1940-1950.; Rocky Mountain Railroad Club--People--1940-1950.; Railfans--Colorado--Monarch--1950-1960.; Monarch (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Railroad locomotives--Colorado--Monarch--1940-1950.; Railroad...
View down into a narrow gulch with the mining camp of Chaffee, (Chaffee City, Camp Monarch and after 1884 Monarch) Chaffee County, Colorado, includes log cabins and structures, tents and slopes with burned or cut timber surrounded by high...
View into a narrow gulch with the mining camp of Chaffee, (Chaffee City, Camp Monarch, and after 1884, Monarch) Chaffee County, Colorado, includes log cabins and structures, tents and slopes with burned or cut timber surrounded by high mountains....
Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad Company standard gauge diesel #111 stops with idler cars filled with rails, and a caboose, during the conversion of the Monarch Branch from narrow to standard gauge, near Salida (Chaffee County), Colorado.
Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Company--Equipment & supplies--1950-1960.; Salida (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Railroad locomotives--Colorado--Salida--1950-1960.; Railroad tracks--Colorado--Salida--1950-1960.; Railroads--Colorado--Salida--1950-1960.
Denver and Rio Grande Western locomotive 489 (2-8-2), with a push snowplow, vents smoke near a signal at the upper switchback at Monarch (Chaffee County), Colorado. Snow covers the mountains. Ore cars filled with limestone are in the distance.
Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Company--1950-1960.; Monarch (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Railroad freight cars--Colorado--Monarch--1950-1960.; Railroad locomotives--Colorado--Monarch--1950-1960.
A Denver and Rio Grande Railway train approaches a track switchback on the Monarch Branch near Garfield (Chaffee County), Colorado. Two men stand near the railroad tracks.
Denver and Rio Grande Railway Company--1880-1890.; Chaffee County (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Monarch Pass (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Passes (Landforms)--Colorado--Chaffee County--1880-1890.; Railroads--Colorado--Chaffee County--1880-1890.
View of large cottonwood tree called "The Old Monarch" in the middle of the block between "C" and "D" Streets on South Union Avenue, in Pueblo, Colorado, shows a horsedrawn stagecoach parked next to the tree and the "Topeka House," a two-story...
Pueblo (Colo.)--1870-1880.; Trees--Colorado--Pueblo--1870-1880.
View of the Monarch Shale Oil Company mine on a mesa in De Beque (Mesa County), Colorado. Shows the mine entrance and crusher site near layered shale at the top of the formation, a shale conveyor, a crushed shale bin, a retort, a stairway, storage...
View of the Colorado Fuel & Iron mine at Monarch Pass in Chaffee County, Colorado; shows shaft house, sheds, tailings, and Denver and Rio Grande railroad tracks with cars full of ore.
Colorado Fuel and Iron Company--Buildings--1940-1950.; Denver and Rio Grande Railroad Company--1940-1950.; Mine buildings--Colorado--Chaffee County--1940-1950.; Tailings embankments--Colorado--Chaffee County--1940-1950.; Chaffee County...
View of oil shale formations and Roan Cliffs at Conn Creek, in Garfield County, Colorado; also shows a Monarch Shale Oil Company building and tailings.
Monarch Shale Oil Company--Facilities--1910-1920.; Oil-shales--Colorado--Garfield County--1910-1920.; Garfield County (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Roan Cliffs (Utah and Colo.)--1910-1920.; Petroleum industry--Colorado--Garfield County--1910-1920.
Katherine Buckwalter poses near an automobile at the summit of Monarch Pass (Chaffee County), Colorado. A nearby sign reads: "Elevation 11200 ft. Cochetopa National Forest."
Buckwalter, Katherine, 1882-1969.; Chaffee County (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Cochetopa National Forest (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Monarch Pass (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Automobiles--Colorado--Chaffee County--1920-1930.; Passes (Landforms)--Colorado--Chaffee...
Monarch, founded in Chaffee County, Colorado in 1878, consists of log or frame dwellings and commercial buildings. Buggies are in the street, and people pose on boardwalks fronting businesses. Foothills and Banana Mountain are in the background.
A dilapidated wooden bridge spans a portion of Monarch Lake in Grand County, Colorado.
Grand County (Colo.)--1930-1970.; Monarch Lake (Colo.)--1930-1970.; Bridges--Colorado--Grand County--1930-1970.; Lakes & ponds--Colorado--Grand County--1930-1970.
A man and a woman walk in a clearing near Monarch Lake in Grand County, Colorado.
Grand County (Colo.)--1930-1970.; Monarch Lake (Colo.)--1930-1970.; Lakes & ponds--Colorado--Grand County--1930-1970.; Women--Colorado--Grand County--1930-1970.
Log cabins are next to a stream bed which is a tributory to Monarch Lake, Grand County, Colorado.
Grand County (Colo.)--1930-1970.; Monarch Lake (Colo.)--1930-1970.; Log cabins--Colorado--Grand County--1930-1970.; Streams--Colorado--Grand County--1930-1970.
View of a two-story building with a hipped roof, near Monarch Lake, Grand County, Colorado, features balcony and front porch balustrades, decorative porch frieze and a widow's walk.
Grand County (Colo.)--1930-1970.; Monarch Lake (Colo.)--1930-1970.; Houses--Colorado--Grand County--1930-1970.
An automobile park near log cabins in a clearing with a few pine trees near Monarch Lake, Grand County, Colorado.
Grand County (Colo.)--1930-1970.; Monarch Lake (Colo.)--1930-1970.; Automobiles--Colorado--Grand County--1930-1970.; Log cabins--Colorado--Grand County--1930-1970.
Overlook view of the Colorado Fuel & Iron mine at Monarch Pass in Chaffee County, Colorado shows: shaft house, tailings, and railroad tracks with cars full of ore.
Colorado Fuel and Iron Company.; Mine buildings--Colorado--Chaffee County--1940-1950.; Tailings embankments--Colorado--Chaffee County--1940-1950.; Chaffee County (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Colorado Fuel & Iron Mine (Chaffee County, Colo.)--1940-1950.;...
View of a Monarch Airlines airplane wing and aerial view of Acoma Mesa and Pueblo, New Mexico, shows the Native American adobe house blocks and the mission church with attached convent and cemetery.
Monarch Airlines--1940-1950.; Acoma Indians--New Mexico--Acoma--1940-1950.; Indians of North America--New Mexico--Acoma--1940-1950.; Pueblo Indians--Structures--New Mexico--Acoma--1940-1950.; Acoma (N.M.)--1940-1950.; Pueblos--New...
Two horses pull a carriage on unpaved, littered Monarch Street in Aspen, Colorado. Wagons drawn by horses are parked on the left side of the street. Buildings include one and two-story brick and wood commercial storefronts and a church with spire.
View of a Denver & Rio Grande Railway passenger train on a switchback on the Monarch Branch, near Garfield (Chaffee County), Colorado. Men stand near the railroad tracks.
Denver and Rio Grande Railway Company--1880-1900.; Chaffee County (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Railroad switching--Colorado--Chaffee County--1880-1900.; Railroads--Colorado--Chaffee County--1880-1900.
A Denver & Rio Grande Railway train approaches a switchback on the Monarch Branch near Garfield (Chaffee County), Colorado. Two men stand near the railroad tracks.
Denver and Rio Grande Railway Company--1880-1890.; Chaffee County (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Railroad tracks--Colorado--Chaffee County--1880-1890.; Railroads--Colorado--Chaffee County--1880-1890.
Women, girls, boys and men eat by gnarled pine trees on Monarch Pass in the Cochetopa Forest Reserve (later the Gunnison National Forest), Gunnison or Chaffee County, Colorado. A man holds a chunk of bread on his pocket knife; a dog is nearby.
Denver and Rio Grande Western locomotive 483 (2-8-2) with a consist of a tender, caboose, and gondola cars, vents smoke by a pile of limestone at the Colorado Fuel & Iron Monarch Limestone Quarry in Chaffee County, Colorado.
Colorado Fuel and Iron Corporation--Facilities--1950-1960.; Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Company--1950-1960.; Chaffee County (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Monarch Limestone Quarry (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Quarrying--Colorado--Chaffee...
Denver and Rio Grande Western locomotive 483 (2-8-2), with a push snowplow and a consist of gondola cars, departs the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company Monarch Limestone Quarry in Chaffee County, Colorado. Mountains and the mill are in the distance.
Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Company--1950-1960.; Chaffee County (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Monarch Limestone Quarry (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Quarrying--Colorado--Chaffee County--1950-1960.; Railroad locomotives--Colorado--Chaffee...
A man sits on a rocky slope at the summit of Monarch Pass at the county line between Chaffee County and Gunnison County, Colorado. Shows patches of snow above timberline in the Sawatch Range.
Monarch Pass (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Sawatch Range (Colo.)--1880-1900.; Passes (Landforms)--Colorado--1880-1900.
Men confer by the entrance to the Monarch Mine and ore car tracks after an explosion near Louisville in Broomfield County, Colorado. Some of the miners wear helmets with lamps.
Broomfield County (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Monarch Mine (Broomfield County, Colo.)--1930-1940.; Coal mining--Colorado--Broomfield County--1930-1940.; Conversation--Colorado--Broomfield County--1930-1940.; Disasters--Colorado--Broomfield...